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List of Twin Cities

I removed some that really aren't twin cities -- like Springfield, Massachusetts and Hartford, Connecticut, which are 30 miles apart, in different metropolitan areas, and different states; and like this listing:

* San Francisco and San Jose The two principal urban cores of the San Francisco Bay area.|group= n}} or San Francisco and Oakland, California connected by the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge over San Francisco Bay

Why are Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri not on the list? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.114.16.133 (talk) 02:12, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Vaudreuil-Dorion?

Hi,

Would Vaudreuil-Dorion be considered a twin city?

24.37.29.254 (talk) 12:40, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Suhang?

Would Suzhou and Hangzhou constitute twin cities under this definition since they or so linked culturally and historically that Mandarin literally has a compound word that refers to them collectively? Exodvs (talk) 03:59, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

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Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti

...are not twin cities by neither the population nor geographical metrics discussed in the article. Any input is appreciated. Pariah24 (talk) 12:06, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

Ypsilanti is neither a suburb nor a twin city. It's best considered a satellite city of Ann Arbor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:6010:9000:2CB:FD81:769F:C87D:3268 (talk) 05:22, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

Create" List of Twin Cities" page

There are too many examples listed in this article and I feel that we should create a "List of Twin Cities" article so that way all of the cities listed can be moved over and can also help eliminate the too many examples tag. Dylpickle2k (talk) 02:32, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

I like the idea. This page should be a description of what a twin city is and the most notable examples then we can link to the list. Grey Wanderer (talk) 17:35, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

United States List Cleanup Project

Discuss which are obvious and which should be removed.

United States

Suggested for Inclusion:

Suggested for Deletion:

  • Strong Oppose removing San Francisco and Oakland - unless all city pairs other than Minneapolis and St Paul also go, would be the only possible scenario where excluding SF/Oakland could be justified. ~2026-59608-1 (talk) 06:27, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

Kansas City

Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas are commonly mistaken as twin cities due to their similar names and confusion about which one is the central city. Kansas City, Kansas is a inner suburb (sometimes called "streetcar suburb") of the older and much more populous Kansas City, Missouri. KCK was founded when urban growth from Missouri spilled over the state line into Kansas. KCK is named after its more famous counterpart. Compare this history with the definition of twin city as spelled out in the lead of this article. Grey Wanderer (talk) 16:32, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

Milwaukee

Milwaukee was historically three different cities that combined after the Bridge War. 2603:6000:9502:9428:784:90B5:A509:4309 (talk) 04:43, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Inconsistent regional spellings

The sentences in this article use inconsistent British and American spellings. I will be nominating this article for improvement at WP:AFIN and making a to-do list. 2600 etc (talk) 16:11, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

This article is OR

The phenomenon being discussed is mostly related to the US and Canada. There are countless cities included in the article, but only a handful of references are given. I removed four of such places that I am certain they were never referred to in this way and, of course, did not have sources to support them. This page requires thorough clean up to ensure accuracy and reliability. ౪ Santa ౪99° 06:41, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

Randstad

I think the Randstad, the "edge city" in the Netherlands also qualifies as a multi-city. It's a quite unique ring of densely populated, adjacent cities such as Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht, which lie in a circle around a green center (het groene hart). PizzaMan ♨♨♨ 07:23, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

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    Prior to their consolidation
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    Champaign was originally known as West Urbana but has since outgrown its neighbor. See Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area.
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    Twin cores of the Metroplex of northern Texas.
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    Nicknamed the Twin Ports, these form the world's largest freshwater port.
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    See Fargo–Moorhead.
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    The two largest cities of Upstate South Carolina. Their shared international airport is named after both cities (Greenville–Spartanburg International Airport).
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    Nicknamed the Petroplex in a nod to the DFW region's nickname, as well as its strong reliance on the oil industry.
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    Also known as the Twin Cities
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    The core cities of the Wyoming Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania.
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    Main cities of the Tampa Bay Area.
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    Two of the three anchor cities of the Lehigh Valley in eastern Pennsylvania, an area that spills over into neighboring New Jersey.
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    See Bloomington–Normal.
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    See Bluefield micropolitan area.
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    See Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area.
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    See College Station–Bryan metropolitan area.
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    Two anchor cities of the three-city Research Triangle area.
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    See Gulfport–Biloxi metropolitan area.
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    The principal cities of the Antelope Valley and High Desert in California.
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    Share the Portland International Jetport (buildings/terminal in one city, runways in the other) and the Port of Portland and retain separate identities.
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    One perhaps more suburban; see Greater Richmond Region.
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    See Sherman–Denison metropolitan area.
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    The cities meet at the border between Texas and Arkansas, and their name is a portmanteau of those states' names as well as that of Louisiana, whose border lies approximately 25 miles to the south. See Texarkana metropolitan area and Ark-La-Tex.

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